Apr 9, 2014 · The first computer The Difference Engine was the first automatic, mechanical calculator designed by British mathematician Charles Babbage, who proposed its construction …

Oct 13, 2015 · That the world’s first computer programmer was a Victorian woman is remarkable in itself, but that she was the daughter of one of literature’s most well-known poets adds such …

5th April 2019 By Jonathan Gordon Who Was Ada Lovelace? Both a pioneer of the Computer Age and the daughter of Lord Byron, the world’s first computer programmer was a complex …

Feb 7, 2014 · The Colossus, as we reported yesterday, was the world’s first electronic, digital computer, used in the Second World War for deciphering codes between Hitler and his …

Feb 6, 2014 · Yesterday saw the 70th anniversary of the world's first electronic computer, the Colossus C, which was used to decipher codes during the Second World War at Bletchley Park.

Apr 30, 2024 · The thing that made this bad news – being told by the communications security people listened to for the first time – was that broken Enigma messages revealed that the …

Jul 17, 2019 · Computer engineer Jack Garman reflects on his time at NASA, his work on the computer systems of Apollo 11 and what it was like to help put people on the moon Subscribe …

2nd October 2025 By Jonathan Gordon All About History preview: The first Chinese Empire, power couples, Thunderbirds Plus Britain’s history with guns, the history of Istanbul, WWII …

Jan 22, 2016 · By the time the First World War started, he was something of a veteran, having seen action in both the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian Wars. In 1914, he was given …

Jun 22, 2015 · The theory that the virgin queen was actually the virgin king was first put into print by none other than Bram Stoker, but there’s no doubt that some of Elizabeth’s contemporaries …